Oak Grove School celebrated “See You At The Pole” Sept 28. According to the See You At The Pole website, the global day of student prayer began in 1990 as a grass roots movement with 10 students praying at their school. Twenty years later, millions pray on their campuses on the fourth Wednesday in September. See You at the Pole is a prayer rally where students meet at the flagpole before school to lift up their friends, families, teachers, school, and nation to God.
On Saturday night their hearts were penetrated like never before, when they became broken before God and burdened for their friends.
Compelled to pray, they drove to three different schools that night. Not knowing exactly what to do, they went to the school flagpoles and prayed for their friends, schools, and leaders. Those students had no idea how God would use their obedience.
God used what He did among those teenagers and others who were holding similar prayer meetings at their schools to birth a vision in the hearts of youth leaders across Texas.
The vision was that students throughout Texas would follow these examples and meet at their school flagpoles to pray simultaneously. The challenge was named See You at the Pole at a brainstorming session during a meeting of key youth leaders. The vision was shared with 20,000 students in June 1990 at Reunion Arena in Dallas, Texas.
Only God had envisioned how many students would step up to the challenge. At 7 a.m. on Sept. 12, 1990, more than 45,000 teenagers met at school flagpoles in four different states to pray before the start of school. Reports came into toll-free number for days after the first event.
On Sept. 11, 1991, at 7 a.m., an estimated one million students gathered at school flagpoles all over the country. From Boston to Los Angeles, from North Dakota to the tip of Texas, students came together to pray. Some sang, some read Scripture, but most importantly, they prayed. Like those first students, they prayed for their schools, for their friends, for their leaders, and for their country.
As in all great movements of prayer, See You at the Pole did not begin in the hearts of people. It began in the heart of God. God used the obedience of a small group of teenagers to ignite what has become an international movement of prayer among young people.
More than 3 million students in more than 20 countries take part in places like Canada, Korea, Japan, Turkey, and the Ivory Coast.
